Of Toads and Trust

There are many worldview implications involved in the recent debate regarding the nomination of John Roberts to the SCOTUS. Last week we considered the not so stealth religious litmus test being applied to Mr. Roberts.
This week it seems one of the main topics of debate revolves around Roberts ruling in a case involving an endangered toad. Supposedly because of the Commerce Clause in the Constitution, the Federal Government can watch our for endangered species wherever they are found in the states. We'll leave the constitutional debate on that matter for another time.

My focus in bringing up this aspect of the debate is to drill down into whether Mr. Roberts can be trusted because of his view on a toad. The debate in the background is not about the Commerce Clause but rather whether the nominee believes certain religious commitments held by the left in America. There is a religious commitment to the environment and the dominion mandate that is from God. I've explictly taught that and wrote on this theme recently.

This is not the kind of thing being expected of Roberts. What the left in America wants in a candidate is an explict avowal not of Christianity but of paganism. Those of a supposedly neutral religious perspective desire that a candidate agree with their conviction that all species should be preserved irrelevant of impact to culture, society, and economy. That is, there is nothing which trumps the preservation of species.

Some other time we'll consider how this is actually counter to typical evolutionary thinking. For now though I simply want to make the point that this value of species preservation at all costs is explicity pagan in worldview. What does a pagan think? He thinks that this world is all there is and the world is a great unity which ought not be broken. If a species is lost, the unity of the world is broken and "sin" has occurred. This is the kind of thinking which leads incredible attention being paid to a Panda bear cub because it is an endangered species while no attention is paid to the 1.5 million children killed each year in abortion. Humans are in no danger of going out of existence so we don't have to concentrate on their preservation (see just previous post today). Instead we must focus on keeping the circle of life intact.

What Judge Roberts is expected to be is a pagan, someone who could sing songs from the Lion King and Pocohontas without reservation and with religious commitment. Yes to trust him he'll have to put a toad above all else. This is yet another religious litmus test but instead of rejecting him because of his Christianity rejection is being sought because Roberts isn't pagan.